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## Package javassist.reflect

Runtime Reflection.

See:
Description

Interface Summary
Metalevel | An interface to access a metaobject and a class metaobject.

Class Summary
ClassMetaobject | A runtime class metaobject.
Compiler | A bytecode translator for reflection.
Loader | A class loader for reflection.
Metaobject | A runtime metaobject.
Reflection | The class implementing the reflection mechanism.
Sample | A template used for defining a reflective class.

Exception Summary
CannotCreateException | Signals that `ClassMetaobject.newInstance()` fails.
CannotInvokeException | Thrown when method invocation using the reflection API has thrown an exception.

## Package javassist.reflect Description

Runtime Reflection.

This package enables a metaobject to trap method calls and field accesses on a regular Java object. It provides a class `Reflection`, which is a main module for implementing runtime reflection. It also provides a class `Loader` and `Compiler` as utilities for dynamically or statically translating a regular class into a reflective class.

An instance of the reflective class is associated with a runtime metaobject and a runtime class metaobject, which control the behavior of that instance. The runtime metaobject is created for every (base-level) instance but the runtime class metaobject is created for every (base-level) class. `Metaobject` is the root class of the runtime metaobject and `ClassMetaobject` is the root class of the runtime class metaobject.

This package is provided as a sample implementation of the reflection mechanism with Javassist. All the programs in this package uses only the regular Javassist API; they never call any hidden methods.

The most significant class in this package is `Reflection`. See the description of this class first.

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